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From: paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber)
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Subject: Unamuno on design.
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 11:29:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 11:29:18 1985
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Along the lines of "design is evidence of a designer" and probability
of life arising by chance:  In speaking of "proofs" of God's existence,
Unamuno writes:

	"...let us not discuss here that absurd proposition that,
	if all the type in a printing press were printed at
	random, the result could not possibly be the composition
	of *Don Quixote*.  Something would be composed which
	would be as good as *Don Quixote* for those who would have
	to be content with it and would grow in it and would form
	part of it."

I love the way he says it. Unamuno was a Catholic philosopher labeled
by some as an existentialist. Reference:

Unamuno, Miguel de.  1952.  Tragic Sense of Life.  (Translator: J.E.
     Crawford Flitch). Dover, New York, p. 162. (Original translation
     1921; original Spanish edition = ?).

Regards, Paul Dolber (...duke!phs!paul).